Word: allowable
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Dates: during 1873-1873
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While other young men are eager to acquire a sufficient knowledge of trade to allow them to assume a business air and talk volubly of the rise and fall of stocks, the average collegiate is gloriously indifferent to it. Such topics awaken no interest in his breast. It makes no difference to him what gold is quoted at, and he never troubles himself to ascertain. He is told of the panic, of the very dull times, etc., but to no purpose; a panic is something of which he has no clear conception, and of dull times his idea...
...lasting renown by their success in this field. An Aldine copy of Lucius Fiorus (Venetiis, 1521) in my possession exhibits a distinctness of typography and general excellence of appearance that for those infant days of the art are quite commendable. Of this class of printers, to whom we might allow the name of artists, we may instance the London Murray and a few of our own leading publishers...
...reasoning. On such a question opinions are determined, not so much by the spoken reasons (such as on Harvard's part "unfairness to the smaller colleges," and on Yale's "fitness that the two races should be rowed on one principle") as by feelings, customs, prejudices. Every one will allow that races between University, and between College or department, Freshmen are both very good things. But if only one can be had, it is evidently a nice matter to decide which is the better. It appears as if a college might easily be excused for choosing either; but, having made...
...Dana spoke of a proposed change in the constitution, which should be altered so as to allow graduates to be members, and which looked to the appointment of a treasurer from among the graduates. This measure is to be brought forward next fall. Whether the treasurer is to be a graduate or not, it seems evident that he should not be one of the University or class crews. These men are doing their share of work for the club, and it is imposing too much upon them to require them to be continually planning how to raise and collect funds...
Hatim Tai, the Oriental exemplar of sympathy and self-sacrifice, one day happened upon a wolf pursuing a doe, and, unwilling to allow the wolf to go hungry, though wishing to save his prey from his jaws, Hatim cut a slice from his own thigh to satisfy the appetite of the beast...